"Suffused by feeling and affect": The intimate public of personal mommy blogging

Biography - An Interdisciplinary Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-55

  Morrison, Aimée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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EID: 80051823130     PISSN: 01624962     EISSN: 15291456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/bio.2011.0002     Document Type: Review

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